Thanks RailsConf

I’ve quite literally grown up going to RailsConf. My first Railsconf was in 2009 in Las Vegas (if you ever meet me, ask me about meeting Billy Mays), and I was fortunate to attend a panel from the GitHub that changed my life. Someone asked them - “What was your biggest regret in building GitHub so far?” One of the founders responded - “Building RubyGems in repos”, or something to that affect. At the time, I was finishing up college and looking for an open source project to contribute to - and a way to make a

• photos from 2009… on
• 2009 - github panel
• 2010 - the art of gemcutting https://speakerdeck.com/qrush/lapidary-the-art-of-gemcutting
• ruby hero award (!!)
• 2011 - cutting your own rubygems https://speakerdeck.com/qrush/cutting-your-own-rubygems
• 2013 portland
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/qrush/8695556918/
• 2018 - https://speakerdeck.com/qrush/the-graphql-way-a-new-path-for-json-apis
• 2025 - evolution of rails

basic points…

• my career is in large part owed to this conference, and certainly this community
• hoping that remote culture + AI doesn’t lead to the demise of professional networking events like this
• go to a conference, apply to speak!